Measurement of the Magnetic Moment of the Proton in Bohr Magnetons

Abstract

An experimental determination of the ratio of the precession frequency of the proton, ${\omega }_p={\mu }_p{H}_0$, to the cyclotron frequency, ${\omega }_e=\frac{e{H}_0}{\mathrm{mc}}$ of a free electron in the same magnetic field has been carried out. The result, $\frac{{\omega }_p}{{\omega }_e}$, is the magnitude of the proton magnetic moment, ${\mu }_p$, in Bohr magnetons, since ${\gamma }_p=\frac{2{\mu }_p}{\hslash }$.